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Kniesner, Thomas J., W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, and James P. Ziliak. 2012. "The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Panel Data." Review of Economics and Statistics, 94(1): 74-87.


The data for this project involve merging public release data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics available at http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/ for years 1993-2001 with proprietary data from the Census of Fatal Occupation and Industry (CFOI) data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  These data were obtained via a Letter of Agreement between the BLS and the University of Kentucky.  Because the data are proprietary we are not at liberty to release it to the public, even in summary format as cell means at the industry/occupation level.  If you are interested in obtaining the CFOI data please contact Mr. Scott Richardson, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20212 .  

For those who obtain the CFOI data, we include the Stata ?DO? files to replicate our results.  We are not at liberty to release ?log? files.

The ?DO? files are labeled according to their table in the paper listed above.  Table 8 is executed simply by lagging the fatality rate by one year.
